Video: impala leaps into car to avoid cheetah in Kruger

Posted by Tyson Jopson on 11 July 2013

It’s amazing how there’s always someone with a video camera when you need it most. I picked up on this story of the crafty impala who dodged a cheetah chase by ‘shotgun fronting’ a Toyota a few days ago (read it here in the Africa Geographic blog). There were only two images to accompany the story and I thought that’s all we were going to get. As it turns out, someone caught the whole thing on camera:

Impala: 1. Cheetah: 0. Leather seats: -1.

According to Robin Gould, who shared the video with us on Twitter, the impala was let out of of the passenger door to safety a few seconds later.

As an aside, I just posted an article on why I think people should remain in their vehicles in game parks ONLY if they think it’s a good idea. I feel like this impala took it a step further.

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